On Jun 14, seebs@plethora.net wrote
> Okay, sure.  Very happy to try a floppy.  :)  How are the probes different,
> are they updated or something?

The whole IDE system is a bit different. Especially the probe routines tries
to be more accurates regarding the specs (the actual probe routine times out
after 10s, where the specs says that a reset can take up to 31s).
It also supports PCI IDE controllers with DMA and Ultra-DMA.

> 
> Well, they must be.  It probed!  You rule!
> 

Thanks !

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